Disgraced Marion Jones finds plea cannot save her from jail sentence

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Marion Jones completed her journey from the Olympic summit to a prison cell yesterday when she was sentenced to six months for lying to federal investigators about doping and cheque fraud.

The disgraced American sprinter, who admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs in a tearful confession in October, cried again as she begged Judge Kenneth Karas not to separate her from her two children when she appeared in court in White Plains, New York. However, in passing sentence, Karas said Jones had not made “a momentary lapse in judgment, a one-time mistake, but instead a repetition in an attempt to break the